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I’m admittedly old fashioned, but we spend too much time and effort coddling these “messengers” in the modern era. I’m not advocating violence but a high velocity paint ball to the baby maker might make some of these people think twice before posting rumor and innuendo.

Next man up I would think.

The new question is “Should President Biden be woken up?”.

I wish I felt this way about baseball. It really has bored me to tears since I was a kid, though I enjoy watching on a local level and certainly enjoyed it when my kids played. I always wished I could enjoy it more. I’m down to football and I do enjoy watching collegiate wrestling. Action, strategy, sacrifice, suffering and I know enough to be wrong about most of it.

Stepping back from this a minute, professional football players are young, male, athletic, fearless and have for many years risked life and limb in pursuit of success in a game. Societally speaking, they are outliers and their general lifestyle would probably not make the list of “Smart things to do with mind and body.”. The issue of players being vaccinated is indeed being debated to death—I read one opinion that players got vaxxed because Mahommes and Fitzy did. I’d disagree, but do think lots of players vaxxed to protect their income/eligibility in the NFL, and may not have if not for the NFL. I think the NFL is protecting the brand, and the brand involves the best players playing their best week in and week out. COVID has the potential to disrupt the brand, so it seems logical they want everyone vaxxed. That’s not to say they do/don’t believe in vaxxing, or don’t care about the well-being of the individual, but as an enterprise it’s all about the show going on.

Kudos to you for holding the company line. You would have made millions working for Big Tobbacky in the 50s and 60s.

The latest benchmark seems to be comparing the attack on the Marines in 1983 in an effort to provide cover for Biden in 2021. You don’t have to be an expert to know that 1983 was the Stone Age with respect to military capability, intelligence operations, artificial intelligence, our ability to protect soldiers and civilians if we choose to do so, and one would think...the limitless amount of technological data available to those in charge. Hell it was the Stone Age relative to just about everything from a technology standpoint, but that won’t stop people from pretending that doesn’t matter. On the heels of this Biden cluster*ck, the most miraculous thing happened. The US military was able to find, track, target and kill a key operative/austere scholar while he sat in the passenger seat of a 1991 Renault Clio rolling along some back road in one of the -stans listening to the Boyz2Men singing “End of the Road” on Sirius 80s on 8. In fact, the only real similarity is that in 1983, our current president was then a 40 year old senator running the halls with Teddy Chappaquiddick (ironically another non-resigner) well past middle aged at that point in time. Impeachment is not an option, he’s far too vain to resign (and likely lacks the ability to formulate a plan to do so) and so long as his lockstep voting bloc continues to roll out “...buh—-buh—-buh—-Lebanon 1983!” nothing changes. Next up from the Joe’s all good crowd: “True fact: FDR didn’t resign in 1942 ...”. 1983. Good Lord.

I will do that. I hope when I do, your mind is open to dialogue.

So, B, let's take this through to its natural conclusion. If he is lying, he will be exposed, as will the 'twelve teachers...board members...and other community members' who perpetrated the heinous fraud upon the people. As I said, friction and dialogue are good things, though there can be pain in the process.

I disagree with your premise that it would be 'pretty easy' to research the scope of work quoted, alternative options for repair, the nature of the bidding process (local v out of state, union v non-union) relative obsolescence of equipment, and 'want' v 'need and so on. I try to do that on my own projects, sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. Be that as it may, that wasn't really my particular hot button issue. I recognize the need for improvements and upgrades, and could spend several hours a day tilting windmills about cost, who does what and to whom. My issue was as stated--on a publicly funded $35,000,000 build out, it seemed unreasonable to include $9,000,000 additional for unforseen costs. It seemed patently outrageous to suggest that if the good citizens of Anytown, NY dug deep to include the override 'just in case', that the school district would have so little regard for the dollar as to say "Trust us, we'll spend it on good sh&t.". So, I trust, but only to a point. Btw, I heard you burn **** in the kitchen all day long.

I have seen reports on outraged and concerned parents speaking passionately at school board meetings and the like, and I'm struggling to see why that's a problem. The flip side of the argument is that school board members and administrators seem to think the decision(s) they render are beyond reproach. This is a byproduct of that particular industry going unchecked for too long, with whatever passes for oversight coming in the form of people that benefit from the system as well. Finally, you mix in a customer base that is compelled to contribute and support the system regardless of outcome and it can be a recipe for disaster. If the educators are fighting the good fight, there is nothing to be concerned about. On a very basic and fundamental level, friction and push back are a good thing, and long overdue in many school districts. A few years back, our school district submitted a bond proposal looking for $44m dollars. The community rejected it, and the superintendent bemoaned the attacks on the system and what she characterized as misinformation on the proposal. My hot button issue was the $9m line item for 'just in case' as the projected cost was $35m. As I read through the proposal--updated computer lab, general building maintenance, air conditioning---most of it was fine, though I have no idea if it was fair and reasonable. The issue with the $9m slusher was the assurance that if it wasn't needed, the district would find a way to spend it. That was a deal breaker for me, and I shared my thoughts in a letter to the superintendent. Thankfully, the following year, they were able to get by on the skinny $35m they originally needed the following year. Friction, push back, questions, frustration and and the like are net positives even when they go against your particular political ideology. The recall effort in Loudon County is the American system working correctly and is a good thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/loudoun-recall-school-board/2021/08/25/9f9e45c2-05d0-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html As for DEI and SEL, these are new terms to me so I'll consider what you said. A quick check into SEL led me to a site on the city of Buffalo and an initiative there. The biggest challenge for me was despite reading about 30 web pages in total, I have no idea what they are actually doing. It read like one rambling corporate memo that describes in the most benign terms possible how 2700 people losing their jobs in a restructuring is actually good for them.

Your screen name was like buying Amazon at $15.25 a share!

What a tragic loss of life. These poor servicemen/women are political pawns, and it's a ***** disgrace.

On a positive note, after his presser, I googled “Enhanced Discipline” and met some new friends.

And there it is.

The problem is when Biden wakes up, he’s in 1978. I acknowledge having a different sense of humor than some, but @Irv and “What a mess” makes me laugh every time he uses it. My bigger concern is that @ComradeKayAdams will turn him into a card-carrying socio-commie revolutionary wearing a “Feel the Bern” tank top.

I don’t recall if you’re the poster who first gave the “Trump involved in keeping the Bills in Buffalo” but I love this story. Thanks. Maybe next time, choose the voice that can claim English as his/her native tongue and have that person type your response. Don’t always listen to the loudest, they may be speaking gibberish.

Maybe, but she’s been lt gov since 2015. If she didn’t know, she was blissfully ignorant. Btw, on the Today show right after Cuomo announced his resignation, Savannah Guthrie quizzed her on what she knew and how she might have missed it. Hochul’s response was I’m essence “I travel a lot”. It would have been nice to see her pressed on that. This is politics and my only point is that it would be virtually impossible for her not to be read in on information this potentially damaging to her. No idea the numbers were being cooked? No idea Cuomo groped female staffers?

The information I’m thinking she was read in on would not come from him. I can’t imagine her being clueless as for they types of things that brought him down—too many voices with too many ambitious people, and he’s too big a target.

I can’t follow any of this.

Serious question--what's the funny part? I'll recast the tale using the theory of modern storytelling: You and a bunch of your privileged and entitled friends misappropriated tickets to a concert featuring the music of an historically disenfranchised people. You attended a super-spreader event, so typical of you and your provincial ilk, taking seats away from more worthy people beaten down by society and victimized by it's systemic corruption. But no, that wasn't enough for you, your thirst for consumption was unabated. You hop into a gas guzzling fossil fuel dinosaur, breaking the heart of Momma Earth, drive to the home of a similarly inclined billionaire, potentially impacting the guards ability to earn a living (probably at a rate below minimum wage) and dare to chastise them for doing their job? #typical

Makes you wonder how they vetted 76,000 non-Americans under chaotic conditions in 10 days.

Welp, we used to fret all about how our neighbors across the pond viewed us. Now…it’s not such a big thing anymore. It took 7 months.

I was just coming here to post this. Glad to see we have new blood in office. Perhaps female perspective will help her out state leadership back on track. That said….we’re to believe the Lt Governor had zero knowledge of her boss sexually harassing employees, and was totally, completely in the dark on the COVID death count? No one warned her, no one raised red flags, she wasn’t interested in looking into the numbers occurring on her watch? Sure. Meet the new boss, likely same as the old boss.

Well, this is different than what you proposed initially, where the unwashed who required treatment spilt medical treatment with the hospital/doctor/waaaambulance on a fitty/fitty basis. Be that as it may, you would have no argument with me if health insurance companies were able to surcharge individuals based on individual health characteristics that posed an above average risk to the collective. Or, refuse coverage for irresponsible individuals who wait until they need coverage to buy it. Interestingly, that’s the exact opposite of the liberal/dem mantra we’ve been fed the last decade or so, but hey, screw your freedoms and such.